THURSDAY, MARCH 15, 1945 THE 'N CHIC:RN DAILY GRAVE-DIGGERS,.BEWARE!! MeKechnie Signs t Two Cincinnati Contracts By WHITNEY MARTIN (Special Associated Press Correspondent) NEW YORK, March 14-(/P)--Bill McKechnie likes his baseball players well seas- oned, so it's only natural the Cincinnati Red pilot would be the one to come up with two pitchers who have had so many seasons they're practically thesalt of the earth. Quite a bit of pepper for their years, too. These young sprouts are Guy Bush and Horace Lisenbee. Why Lisenbee is com- ing back to the Majors is open to question, but Bush possibly was influenced when he heard Major League ball would be Bush League this year. Or is that too punny? Anyway, everything considered, these 42-year-old relics of the gilded 20's should do all right, even if they have to take a running start to get the ball from the mound to the plate. After all, men who have faced fellows like Ty Cobb, Eddie Collins, Harry Heilman, Rogers Hornsby, George Sisler and Tris Speaker shouldn't have too much trouble with the fuzzy-cheeks who will be in the bater's box this year. Lisenbee has been playing professional baseball since 1924, when he broke in with Brookhaven in the Cotton States League. Bush broke in with Greenville, also in the Cotton States League, in 1923. If there is any Major League pitching lefi in the arms of Lisenbee and Bush, McKenzie will extract it. He is reputed to be just about tops when it comes to getting the most out of a mound staff, and can take old timers who have been knocked around in the Minors and get winning performances out of them. Ed Heusser is just one example. Ed is crowding 36, and until MeKechnie picked him up in 1943 he had had more acdresses than a telephone book. He started playing pro ball in 1929 and before he poined the Reds had played on 14 clubs, ranging from coast to coast and Danville to Elmira. He played return engagements at some of the towns, and popped up with Major League clubs on three occasions, only to pop right back. Last year his won and lost record wasn't so much, but his 2.38 earned run average was the best in the National League, and his ancient arm was good for 198 innings. McKechnie apparently is rounding up a mound staff that will feature know-how instead of the zip and wildness and the jitters of youth, figuring that the old gaf- fers with their savvy will be able to bamboozle youthful hitters. He also probably realizes the old boys are less likely to be called into the service. Anyway, it will be interesting to watch how Bush and Lisenbee make out in their race with Father Time. Lisenbee apparently is a work horse, as he pitched 249 innings for Syracuse last year. Incidentally, the Reds also have signed Gene Hinrichs, a 38-year-old southpaw who hasn't played since 1941 because of army service. Mich igan SextetReceives Thirteen Varsity Letters Cindermen Primed for Chicago Meet Saturday Y Dick Barnard, Ch uck Lauritsen Join Team. increasing Maize and Blue Entrants to Six^ Heyliger Awards; Gives Ten Major, Three Minor Team Wins Four, Loses Six Tilts With the addition of two track stars, the contingent of Michigan's Western Conference Indoor Cham- pions that will compete in this Sat- urday's Chicago Relays are ready for this carnival. Coach Ken Doherty stated yester- day that he would also send both Dick Barnard and Chuck Lauritsen along with the Hume twins, Dick Forrestal and Julian Witherspoon to Chicago. Coach Doherty also said that there isn't sufficient competi- tion to warrant his sending any relay teams to this meet. Barnard will run beside Captain Ross Hume in the 1,00O-yard dash, thus further enhancing the Wol- verine chances in this event. These men will be competing against such famous middle-distancemensasLes Eisenhardt, former Ohio State star and \now running under the colors of the Great Lakes Naval Training Station. Another serious threat in this event will be Charles Beetham, veteran runner, who has many rec-I ords to his credit. Charles Birdsall and Ross Willard were invited to compete in the two- mile run at the relays, but both men regretfully informed Coach Doherty that they would be unable to com- pete. Willard and Birdsall have, of late, been copying the precedent started by the Hume twins, that of dead-heating all their races. Lauritsen, who has shown steady improvement since the start of the season, will find the going tough when .he tries to better his mark of 13 feet in the pole vault. Lauritsen tied for thid place in the Conference championships last week with a jump of 12 feet 6 inches. When asked to comment on the mile run, which will feature the world-famous Gunder Haegg, Jim Rafferty, unbeaten this season, and Michigan's own Bob Hume, Coach Doherty stated that "Rafferty must be rated the favorite in view of the fact that he has beaten Haegg twice Truman Will Sub WASHINGTON, March 14-(/P)-If official business prevents President Roosevelt from tossing out the first ball of the 1945 baseball season here April 16, Vice-President Harry S. Truman will pinch-throw. Truman today promised Clark Griffith, owner of the Washington Senators, that he'll be on hand for the opening game with the New York Yankees, April 16. SPRING IS SERE: We specialize in "Crew and Person- ality" hair styling. They're individ- ualistic - Suave! THE DASCOLA BARBERS Liberty off State this year and is unbeaten in six starts." Coach Doherty also said, "Bo' Hume is not in his best physical con- dition because of his medical school studies and will find the going very tough in his debut against Haegg." The squad, after the Chicago Re- lays, will prepare for the Purdue Re- lays a week hence where the Confer- ence kingpins will face the cream of college trackdom throughout the country. The Wolverines will send a full team to these -races and will be in top form. 'Hope Baseball Can Continue,' Says Roosevelt Statement Elates Baseball Magnates WASHINGTON, Mar. 13.- (/)-- President Roosevelt made plain to- day that he wants to see baseball carry on this season, despite its war - time difficulties. In the strongest words yet used by Mr. Roosevelt on this question, he told a news conference that he is all in favor of baseball as long as it does not require perfectly healthy people who could be doing more useful war work. Report Queries A reporter quickly asked if theI President thought it possible, under that theory, for the leagues to oper- ate this year. Mr. Roosevelt asked right back, why not? He said he would go to see sand- lot games himself and so would most people. FDR Upholds Griffith The President declared that Clark Griffith, owner of the Washington Senators, was quite right in telling reporters that the resident favored night baseball. He was one of the fathers of it, he added. Griffith Conferred Griffith conferred with Mr. Roose-1 velt at the White House yesterday, giving him an annual pass, the Presi- dent said then that he might even get out to the opening game, April 16, to make the first pitch. Baseball people were elated over the President's remarks today. It was the third time he has gone to bat for the game during wartime ... first in 1942 to keep the sport alive, again recently and now today. There still remains, however, the thorny problem of baseball's man- power, which apparently hinges on provisions in legislation -now before Congress. BOB KELLEY (left) .of Illinois is the winner by six ii Iws in te 440 yard (center) of Michigan placing second in this ecnit o l t' o i"tSen Indoor Chicago, Ill. In third place was C. Martin (right) o ri ha. Eile' time gan won the meet with 55 1 10 points and illinois placed secim wi h 5 10. Yank GQ4;P~eP, 1Te u TootballCha -ei LAKEWOOD, N. 'J.. M' ar. 13--- C'Leagu Under a warm sun and a temperature fielder Pjigskjins W~II)Iw of 50 degrees.. the New York Giants the S i >n >aFte worked out for two hours and 40 dent Ambulances in France minutes today, indulging in a lively ;I'ot-1 infield drill Afte ON THE WESTERN FRONT-/1') Pil Weintraub, regular flrs base- the h -This is a story of ambulances aid al reported today, and tohe arrival - L footballs. of Bobby Burt helson boosted tIhe ru.f It involves the American Field Ser- number of pitclr now in cap to out ol vice and took place iii Alsace, Paris 13. .thoug and London. C. B. Alexander of Bal- !tin e ar timore, Md., needed ten ambulances is tuel for his volunteer drivers attached to BOSTON, Ma-. 13- With l Pete! his ar the first French army. Fox, the 315-hitting ottelder. as the b Alexander and Mark Etheridge, Jr., the only player, the Boston Rd Sox y of Louisville, Ky., went to see Gen. advance guard today entrained for IHar Jean de Lattre de Tassigny about the Pleasantville, N. J., spring train- instru( getting those ambulances. The gen- ing camp. The party also included mome eral had a shortage too-of footballs. manager Joe Cronin, coaches Tom he dr He needed 100 pigskins for his Daly, Hughey Duffy and Larry Wood-' roce officer candidate school. all and trainer Win Green. to rul "And so it is a deal," said the gen- --Thi eral. "I'll give you one new ambu- JEFFERSON BARRACKS, Mo., in th lance for every ten footballs you give Mar. 14.--(/P)- Mort Cooper, ace goverr me." righthander of the St. Louis Cardinal was w It sounded like an easy deal and pitching staff, entered the post hos- Melvin Braunstein, son of a Pitts-_ pital here today for a seris of exam- ourgh, Pa., sporting goods dealer, inations o ascertain his physical A was assigned i-he task of gctting fitness-for military serice. the footballs. * SO Armed with letters from the gen- PHILADELPHIA, Mar. 13--(ll eral requesting the footballs, Braun- Connie Mack and holdout Russ Chris- Notie stein flew to Paris. First he went to topher reached a contract agreement swift da Supreme Allied Headquarters. Then today, shortly after the Athleticso Ad to French Special Services Head- manager arrived home. to b e quarters. Then to American supply The lean riighthander won 14 and d officials and finally to the French lost 14 with the fifth place Mackmen Commissariat of Sports. last season. was a "Sorry, no footballs are kic4,nx1 -- around here," was the story he ;got , T.LOUSMarch 14-. Specia at each place= instructions for ruling on catches by ) I Braunstein recalled that before the Pete Gray vill be gixen American war a sporting goods firm in London - had exported footballs to his father's firm. x 3 ", SO he hitch I'ked a (ros) 5 heTG T Channel in an RAF plane, onv tO find the company tied up with Army orders. But finally the Am- erican Special Services in lnodon i said they could take care of hinm. I The other day Praunstoim ret uniewd to6aisnzy heatit~s wti1t y! footballs, 24 pairs of football shoes and 12 football pumps. jIIt .he ten ambulances will be (urn - ing up any day now.-........ race, with Dick Forrestal 1rack and Field meet at 'as 50.0 seconds. Michi- e zumpires it the one-armed out- r makes the grade this year with t. Louis Browns, league presi- Wi ll Ilarridge has advised the er making a catch, Gray places dl a alnst his chest and moves t ' d to the stub of his right i !,hi minodoin, the ball rolls f his glove and up his wrist as ;h it were a ballbearing between rm anct octy. When the glove ked under the stub, Gray draws rm back across his chest until all rolls back into his hand, for a throw. ridge said the umpires will be cted to give Gray credit for ntary catches, and in the event ops the ball after starting the ss of removing his glove, not e out the catch. s is the same regulation umpires e southern association used in ping plays by Gray when he with Memphis. )(IcW. S Shke- Up U' TH BEND, Ind., Mar. 14.- The football coaching staff at Dame Univeisity underwent changes today. in Walsh, line coach, resigned come head coach of the Cleve- Rams of the National Football e, while Gene Ronzani, for the 2 yeaixs with the Chicago Bears, ppointcd backfield coach. -- WONDS w Coach Vic Heyliger, finishing his first season as Michigan's hockey mentor yesterday announced the awards for the 1945 season. Ten major letters were presented by Heyliger, which were given to Captain Ted Greer, Wayzata,-Minn.; John Jenswold, Duluth, Minn.; Karl Sulentich, Eveleth, Minn.; Bob Hen- derson, Herb Upton, and Bob Gra- ham all from Ann Arbor; Dick Mix- er, Birmingham, Michigan, Fred Lounsberry, Williamsville, N. Y.; Bob Lillienfield, Highland Park, Ill.; and Francis Allman, Toronto, Canada. Only three minor letters were awarded and the receivers were Paul Groth, ]Detroit, Michigan; Robert Precious, Ann Arbor, Mich- igan, and George Howland who was student manager. Top goal getter for the Michigan sextet was Greer who netted eight- een markers in the Wolverine's ten game schedule, followed by .Sulentich and Jenswold who are tied with seven goals apiece. Lillienfield and Louns- berry broke even with three points each, and Allman and Henderson have crashed the visitor's nets once during'the season. Winding up their schedule last Sat- urday night, the Wolverine pucksters ended the season with a r'ecord of four wins against six losses. The sextet played its opening match against the strong and experienced Detroit squad, Vickers A. C., and dropped the game 12-6; the follow- ing week, encountering the Univer- sity of Minnesota, the rinksters re- ceived their second setback when they were shut out by the Gophers10-0. Registering the initial win of the season January 20, the Maize and Blue puck squad defeated Sarnia 4-3 and went on to capture their next match against Brantford to balance their two defeats with the same number of victories. 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